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Jim Chalmers really, really wants you to know he’s being responsible with the budget

The treasurer has promised the 2024 federal budget will be responsible. He’s said it again and again. And again.

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Jim Chalmers delivers 2024 budget speech – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Is the Coalition planning to overtake Labor and tax rich inner-city EV drivers?

The commonwealth had state electrical vehicle taxes struck down in court. Now reform is stuck in the slow lane

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Price, speed and Elon Musk: why some Australians are ditching the NBN

While politicians argue over who to blame for a decline in Australia’s broadband uptake, customers are seeking more affordable ways to get online

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Australia’s support for UN resolution on Palestinian membership ‘not recognition of statehood’

Penny Wong reiterates support for eventual two-state solution after watered-down resolution passed by general assembly

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Australia will seek to return Rwandans to PNG after unauthorised arrival in Torres Strait

Government will require that the five men who claimed asylum will not be sent to a country where they face persecution

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Report urges immediate assistance for Australia’s faltering live music festival sector

Inquiry into Labor’s national cultural policy finds cancellation of events the result of rising overhead costs, including insurance

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Home Affairs is a disaster. It needs an urgent and radical overhaul

Home Affairs was so inept in its regulation of migration agents it simply allowed people it knew were accused of criminality to keep plying their trade.

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Gina Rinehart, One Nation and the Greens all oppose Glencore’s plan to store CO2 in the Great Artesian Basin – why?

The mining company insists the storage hub is safe but many are unconvinced about injecting carbon dioxide into a major Australian water resource

The Guardian - AU

Australian federal budget 2024: what we know so far and what to expect

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has promised more cost-of-living relief in his 14 May budget as well as spending for students and health

The Guardian - AU

Coalition pushes using super for home buying despite modelling showing proposal would cost billions

Deloitte modelling for Super Members Council finds move could cost budget up to $2.5bn a year by end of the decade

The Guardian - AU

Australia should pass bill to ban non-prescription vapes, Senate committee finds

Recommendation comes after two days of hearings and nearly 300 submissions from health, education, pharmaceutical and other sectors

The Guardian - AU

Greens and Nats unlikely allies when it comes to cracking down on Coles and Woolies

The Nats have said they’re for divestiture powers, putting them at odds with their Coalition partner.

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Media treatment of Chinese Australians a useful study in ‘social cohesion’ debate

Persistent media narratives about Chinese Australians — as well as alarmist talk about war with China — has only served to alienate the community.

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Coalition urges amendments to deportation bill as Labor accused of trying ‘to outflank Dutton to the right’

Peter Dutton’s opposition accuses Labor of a ‘flagrant disregard for multicultural communities and legal experts’

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Supermarkets inquiry: forcibly break up major retailers in cases of anti-competitive behaviour, report says

Senate committee examined how major chains including Coles and Woolworths have set prices during Australia’s cost of living crisis

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A lobbying future made in Australia — by Labor and its mates

While partisan lobbying firms play a role in government decisions, the opposition is right to be sceptical.

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Neoliberals want an austerity budget, but the economy doesn’t need savage cuts

There’s pressure on Labor to produce a contractionary budget next week. But the economy is already weak as rate rises inflict a huge toll.

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Hunter support for nuclear high in survey, but it's a complex topic

'Were they asked if they want it in their electorate?'

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The Coalition says it can improve Labor’s deportation bill – but might Dutton blow it up instead?

The Greens are out to kill legislation they hate while the opposition is yet to finalise its position – it could be a budget week blockbuster

The Guardian - AU

Only 30 of 500 family violence workers promised by Labor have been delivered, minister says

Katy Gallagher says more aid for women escaping violence could come in form of increased rent assistance as sector struggles to recruit workers

Newcastle Herald

Eraring's owner has all the power in energy extension negotiations

'What a political and bureaucratic disgrace.'

WEKU

How do you help patients who show up in the ER 100 times a year?

For decades, nonprofits, health insurers and hospitals have been trying to solve the problem of the people who need the emergency room again and again. Here are some of the lessons they've learned.

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese criticises granting of bail to former detainee accused of assaulting Perth woman

Independent panel made ‘wrong decision’ to advise that Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan did not need ankle bracelet before alleged assault on Ninette Simmons, PM says

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Age verification won’t work, but idiot verification is doing fine in the male violence debate

Imposing age verification in an effort to block kids’ access to pornography will just send Australians to the darker and more sinister parts of the internet.

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